Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-12-30

ID alter Cunningham
Ided to his fathers real estate
D!sSnton and its vicinity. by deed made
before the death of the latter in 1913. He
seems to have borne his fair part in the
Indian wars at least; was first enrolled as
private in 1856 in Capt. Israel Christians
company and afterwards became Captain.
For eighteen years, from 1859 to 1887, he
was continuously and unanimously elected
Clerk Of the Court-Martial of the County.
The sums paid him for clerks services at
different times in British and Continental
money and in specie ranging from Is to
700 pounds and back to pounds and forty
dollars in specie-curiously illustrate the
financial condition of the country. About
1888, having sold his land to Alex. ST..
Clair, he removed with all his family to
Jessamine County, Kentucky, and with
him III &,&5as4~etS !. le-~ 49,
THE A FAMfIt4 Fl NA lSh D11s a sas
from our town. His son John represented
Jessamne County in the Kentucky Legis-
lature with great credit in 1928, and the
descendants of a daughter who married
Robert Lowry. Esq, are now living in
Woodford County, KY, and are among its
most reputable citizens. Another daugh-
ter, Mary, it IS said, was wife of Col. VIM.
Price, of great Revolutionary distinction,
from Stafford County, Va. Their son,
Capt Jas. G. Price. fell at the head of his
company of infantry at the bloody battle
of the Raisin, January IS, 1813-a disaster
over which Kentucky has not yet ceased
to mourn.
S. M. Duncan. Esq. known as "the
Jessamine County historian" states in a
letter, that one of the Cunninghams
"from Augusta County, Va, came to
Jessamine County at an early day. He
had patent from King George III. giving
him lands in the County of Kentucky be-
fore the Revolutionary war. His son John
lived many years in Jessamine County and
represented the county in the Legislature
of 1928. He was man of extraordinary
ability and was highly esteemed among
the people Of that day as man or unble-
mished honor and integrity. He died
childless, in Shelby County, in 1885.
From another source it is established that
this John G. was the son of our Walter c.
Major Robert Burns died in 1882. He
owned a house and lots in Stanton. and
the tract "known as Bessy Bell and Mary
Gray, containing $50 acres" His whole
estate was left by will to his wife, his only
daughter, Mary Cunningham Burns
and bis step-daughter, Sarah Lockhart
From the devise of $4,000 acres On Ken
lucky" to wife and daughter, the latter
may also have moved thither. -,
Robt. Reed died in 1887. His widow
thereafter married Gen. Geo. Mathews. al
! officer of great distinction, and subsequent
ly
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
But the fiery temper of the doughty little
warrior and the high spirit of his wifi
could not keep the peace and they were
divorced. Jhenceforward she lived il
Staunton, in her house on the southsidt
of Beverley street, near the west corner
of Augusta street until her death, in Jan
, uary, 1927. She was woman of superior
intelligence, good culture and great forct
Of character, revered and beloved by he
! relatives and the centre of large sOcia
| circle of the best class. Judge Archibald
| Stuart was her warm and firm friend, an(
with her relative, VIM. Davis, ESQ.,, wa
executor of her will. That document is
most notable one. 1t gives the clue to tn
whole Cunningham family record, eithe
by pecuniary legacy or gift of furniture
&C., as tokens of affection. Scarce one 0
her kin fails to be remembered. and amonl
| them are found the Grays, Gambills, Her
rings, Joneses, Smiths and WATERWAYS O
| Rockingham; the Dormans of Rockbridge
and the Davises, CARRIERS, Harmans, Nc
Dowells. Michies and McCroys OF Augusta
and the Minzies Of kentucky. The viii
was written by her friend Judge Stuart
and his sons, A. H. H. Stuart and Gerar
B. Stuart are the attestlng witnesses. a
codicil is attested by Addison Waddell an
Alex. and Robt. Hall. Finally it gave lie
gacies to three special friends ''Eljza
beth Calhoun, wife of Rev. VIM. Calhoun
Sally and Nancy Waddell." The baptis
NAL register of the Rev. Jno. Craig, D. D
shows that she was baptized in 1747; ant
thus it quite sufficiently appears that 70
eighty years
"OLD AUNT REED
Was one OF the most noteworthy person
that has figured in the annals of Stauntor
John Cunn1ngham's third daughter
Elizabeth, (the first born in Staunton
wife Of Capt. Thos. Smith, had issue-C
Margaret, wife of Michael CARRIER, Esq
Presidents of Staunton.) ~. Sarah. VIII
of Maj. Moses McCue; the latter young
er brother of the Rev. John McCue, l
D., of Thinking Spring, Maj. McCue an
his wife resided for many years after thei
marriage in 1900, IN che town Of Stauntor
81 Elizabeth, wife OF John Jones;
Thos. Smith; (5) Robt. Smith. The la'
three were Rocking ham families.
Again, from Margaret CARRIER descen'
ed Margaret Reed CARRIER, the first wife
our great lawyer, Thos. J. Niche, an
Sally J. Hartman, wife of Lewis Harmal
Esq. Thence sprung Col. NJ 6. Harma1
End Reg't Q. S. A., Maj. John a. Ha
man of the Mexican war and Stonewa
Jackson S Quartermaster; VIM. Il. Hal
man officer in MnXican war Ri uadi
} General G. S. A., and killed in battle, an
Col. A. W. Hartman, Colonel of 18th ca'
airy. G. S. A, and st. Thomas Harmar